21st Century Collaborative

What an awesome time I had in Birmingham at AETC! The Alabama Best Practice Center Fellows rocked!We began the day with  Aimee  Smith and  Brandi Caldwell’s presentation on Teaching with Blogs. They shared their wisdom with a packed house and were fabulous. Most of their examples were from Alabama educators created during the first year [...]

A big thank you to all who helped with the Building Virtual Learning Communities workshop in Miami via Skype or Elluminate!!! Last week, I had the opportunity to meet and collaborate with some of Dade Schools teacher leaders– what an awesome bunch of educators. Their hospitality blew me away. The purpose of my session was [...]

Now that the last of the four 21st Century Learning sessions in Elluminate is over– it’s a good time to pause and reflect on where this work has taken the Alabama Best Practice Center’s 21st Century schools that are involved in the Microsoft 21st Century Partners’ project. Last night we had the final virtual 21st [...]

I am co-leading the most rewarding project with the Alabama Best Practice Center  that is being funded with a grant from Microsoft.  We have design a professional development program aimed at introducing schools to 21st Century Learning principles. Over a two-year period, 40 schools in the ABPC Powerful Conversations network will be invited to participate [...]

http://www2.districtadministration.com/viewArticle.aspx?articleid=135 Nice interview in District Administration. Will and I are quoted throughout and I think for the most part it was well written and a positive piece about using technology as a communication tool within school districts. However, they sure didn’t follow through on their fact checking– they missed some basics with this one! For [...]

Owning Contemporary Literacy…The Next Big Conversation John Pederson on his blog posted this…"Rank this among the “Top 10 of 2005″ that make me think a bit deeper about everything that’s going on."  In reference to  my "Can’t give away what you dont own" comment. One strategy for helping teachers  "own it"  was covered in an [...]